Deseret News (Associated Press), “Jehovah's Witnesses still ban most blood transfusions”
“a Jehovah's Witness who has a transfusion automatically “revokes his membership.””
Spokesman J. R. Pellechia; 'The group acknowledges that it has ended its practice of “disfellowshipping”'; 'It has the same effect'.
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